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Old 03-31-2015, 02:19 PM
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Default Re: Going Clear, or, In Your Face, Scientology

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Originally Posted by livius drusus View Post
The bet story is apocryphal. Hubbard said repeatedly that the way to get rich was to start a religion, but a bet had nothing to do with anything.
Not without basis. The Si-Fi writers of the era knew each other from their association with "Amazing Stories" and various conventions they would jointly attend. Heinlein may be a liar, but he claimed to have made that bet with Hubbard in his autobiographical works.
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